Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also trugmallion, trugmullion) a prostitute, a mistress.

1592		Arden of Feversham line 515: Yet doth he keepe in euery corner trulles, And weary with his trugges at home, Then rides to London, there forsooth He reuells it among such filthy ones.
1608		Dekker Belman of London (3rd) G4: Some notorious trebble-chind baude [...] who keepes a tippling house, and brings vp yong Trugs [...] that are harlots to the Liftes.
1610		Rowlands Martin Mark-all 14: A bowsie bawdie miser, good for none but himselfe, and his trugge.
1623		J. Taylor ‘World runnes on Wheeles’ in Works (1869) II 238: Froth the Tapster, Bill the Taylor, Lauender the Broker, Whiffe the Tobaco seller, with their companion Trugs.
1638		R. Brathwait Barnabees Journal IV Z3: Farewell [...] Steepy wayes by which I waded, / And those Trugs with which I traded.
1654		Mercurius Fumigosus 11 9 Aug. 104: When every Trug, with brazen-face, / Must have Gold-Lace to fringe her A---se.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Trug, a dirty Puzzel, an ord’nary sorry Woman.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1730		Hist. of Col. Francis Charteris 46: The little, dirty, Scotch Trug desired to show the justices her Man.
1733		Laugh and Be Fat 150: Here are People and Sports, / Of all Sizes and Sorts / Couch’d Damsel and ’Squire, / And Mob in the Mire, / Tarpaulins, Trugmallions, [...] And Loobies in Scores.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1742		N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 24: Thus clean’d, I got the foul Trugmullion / Promoted to be Under-scullion.
1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Trug, a dirty puzzle, an ordinary sorry woman.
1973		R. Todasco Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Dirty Words.

2. a catamite or young homosexual boy.

c.1608

J. Healey Discovery of New World iii vii §2 194: Euery other house keepes sale Trugges or Ganymedes [N].